Poll of the Day > Pornhub gets blocked in Texas...

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pornhub-disables-access-texas-due-204730562.html

Think it's a big deal?

It's not like there aren't other porn sites But when I visited houston I never saw so many strip clubs in my life what a Hypocritically garbage state

Yeah when I think of child safety the first thing I think about is the state with razorwire in their rivers to drown kids

This is like 'solving' underage drinking by banning Budweiser...

Pornhub blocked services to Texas. Not the other way around lol.

ya, a corporation is exerting force over the state! Proletariate!

Texas should rename itself from "The Lone Star State" to "The Blue Ball State"

Yellow posted...

Yeah when I think of child safety the first thing I think about is the state with razorwire in their rivers to drown kids

That also makes sure they won't be able to look at Internet porn (on the handful of sites that are noteworthy enough to attract government attention if they run afoul of the age verification requirement). It's perfectly logically consistent if you make sure you're focusing on what's really important!

(/s, if it's not obvious enough)

Dikitain posted...

Texas should rename itself from "The Lone Star State" to "The Blue Ball State"

There is a few others as well, like Utah, etc...

North Carolina has apparently passed similar laws but my Internet thinks I'm in Tennessee.

JoeDangIt posted...

North Carolina has apparently passed similar laws but my Internet thinks I'm in Tennessee.

Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia and now Texas are all states that have age verification laws and have been blocked by PH. Of course, VPN's exist so this is largely a symbolic gesture.

Dikitain posted...

Texas should rename itself from "The Lone Star State" to "The Blue Ball State"

It's called The Lone Star State because that's their Google review.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/tech/vpn-searches-spike-texas-pornhub/index.html

Lokarin posted...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/tech/vpn-searches-spike-texas-pornhub/index.html

I'm fairly certain the existence of VPN's factored heavily into Pornhub's willingness to block states.

lol Texas. Red states really trying to be Handmaid's Tale.

I really enjoy watching Texas girls get banged.

VPNs work, so no big deal Either way, it doesnt really do anything to help anyone. So, I guess well see what happens

LinkPizza posted...

VPNs work, so no big deal Either way, it doesnt really do anything to help anyone. So, I guess well see what happens

The vast majority of the population has no idea what a VPN is, let alone how to set one up.

Then again, the Google for that has spiked in Texas, so more are learning.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

The vast majority of the population has no idea what a VPN is, let alone how to set one up.

Then again, the Google for that has spiked in Texas, so more are learning.

I would figure most people who are in the range for watching porn would probably know And especially anyone younger, even if not using it for porn, would probably know. Or anyone who watches YouTube, as all the YouTubers seem to promote one of the many VPNs

LinkPizza posted...

I would figure most people who are in the range for watching porn would probably know

There's a substantial audience for porn in pretty much every age range. Older, less computer-savvy people are more likely to be stumped by the block, though younger audiences (not-so-ironically, the exact audiences this law is allegedly trying to protect) will likely be able to figure it out.

adjl posted...

younger audiences (not-so-ironically, the exact audiences this law is allegedly trying to protect) will likely be able to figure it out.

I mentioned to someone that the ones they think theyre protecting are the ones most likely to have VPNs to see what they want, anyway

Think of the children!.....actually don't. :3

LinkPizza posted...

I mentioned to someone that the ones they think theyre protecting are the ones most likely to have VPNs to see what they want, anyway

Or if not VPNs, to be active in enough online communities to find sites that don't have age verification and/or have not blocked Texas. It'll cut down a bit on kids accessing porn, but if they want to find it, they're going to, and the government won't be able to do anything to circumvent that until they make a genuine effort to understand what options are available to verify users' ages securely and without introducing major privacy concerns.

Of course, the actual best course of action would be to accept that it's inevitable that kids that want to see porn are going to access it, and from there develop sex ed curricula that include candid discussions about what porn is, isn't, and the harms it can do if misused, but somehow I don't think Texan voters would get behind that.

adjl posted...

Or if not VPNs, to be active in enough online communities to find sites that don't have age verification and/or have not blocked Texas. It'll cut down a bit on kids accessing porn, but if they want to find it, they're going to, and the government won't be able to do anything to circumvent that until they make a genuine effort to understand what options are available to verify users' ages securely and without introducing major privacy concerns.

Of course, the actual best course of action would be to accept that it's inevitable that kids that want to see porn are going to access it, and from there develop sex ed curricula that include candid discussions about what porn is, isn't, and the harms it can do if misused, but somehow I don't think Texan voters would get behind that.

I mean, it was hard enough to keep kids from porn even before the internet. Now it is just a hopeless endeavour, especially with sites hosted in countries that aren't really going to care about Texas trying to fine them.

We definitely don't have a global epidemic of porn addiction or anything.

Wish they'd block that degenerate shit everywhere, but hey, I'm sure it will be fine eventually when civilization collapses from the various pressures pushing it that way.

ItIsSoOver posted...

We definitely don't have a global epidemic of porn addiction or anything.

Wish they'd block that degenerate shit everywhere, but hey, I'm sure it will be fine eventually when civilization collapses from the various pressures pushing it that way.

I'll argue the current push to create more gamblers will cause more problems than porn.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I'll argue the current push to create more gamblers will cause more problems than porn.

"Various pressures"

The push to embrace our vices is only one of those pressures and I lump them all together.

ItIsSoOver posted...

We definitely don't have a global epidemic of porn addiction or anything.

Says the person who posted a pic of their face (apparently) covered in semen for PotD to see at least. Nothing sexual about that obviously.

wwinterj25 posted...

Says the person who posted a pic of their face (apparently) covered in semen for PotD to see at least. Nothing sexual about that obviously.

If you consider that pornographic that's your call
But

pornography

noun

1. printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.

Not like I have or would ever share a photo of my tits or nethers or of myself performing an intimate act. No sex organs, and no sex activity. If you found that erotically stimulating then that says more about you than my post.

ItIsSoOver posted...

If you consider that pornographic that's your call

I mean you did get banned for that but silly me it was just a normal selfie.

So let me get it straight.

Free speech endangers children so the government decides to step in to protect them by limiting free speech.

Also:

Gun violence endangers children but the government can't step in to protect them because that would limit the right to bear arms.

Gotcha.

Pretty much yeah.

wwinterj25 posted...

I mean you did get banned for that but silly me it was just a normal selfie.

You think porn is the only thing that can get people banned? You're kind of a weird guy.

and again, see the above definition. that picture didnt really fit the bill

ItIsSoOver posted...

You think porn is the only thing that can get people banned? You're kind of a weird guy.

You mean you did something worse?
https://i.imgur.com/HLUafGQ.gif

EatMan posted...

So let me get it straight.

Free speech endangers children so the government decides to step in to protect them by limiting free speech.

Also:

Gun violence endangers children but the government can't step in to protect them because that would limit the right to bear arms.

Gotcha.

Strictly speaking, TX passed a law that required adult content sites to validate ID's for TX residents and PornHub opted to just block TX rather than comply. I don't really see that as a free speech violation as it is a massive privacy violation. I also see it as being a largely meaningless law for all the other reasons stated in this thread.

ItIsSoOver posted...

We definitely don't have a global epidemic of porn addiction or anything.

Wish they'd block that degenerate shit everywhere, but hey, I'm sure it will be fine eventually when civilization collapses from the various pressures pushing it that way.

Ain't no panic like a moral panic. Careful you don't clutch those pearls too hard.

ItIsSoOver posted...

If you consider that pornographic that's your call

Most would consider a facial to be a sex act, and most would consider any depiction of a sex act pornographic. That doesn't mean it was particularly interesting porn, but lumping it in with porn is pretty reasonable. That is, after all, why it was modded.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I'll argue the current push to create more gamblers will cause more problems than porn.

Probably, but I wouldn't really consider either to be harbingers of society's collapse. They're problems, certainly, but in the grand scheme of climate change, an explosive cost of living crisis, and the imminent collapse of the labour market due to runaway automation, they don't really amount to much.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Strictly speaking, TX passed a law that required adult content sites to validate ID's for TX residents and PornHub opted to just block TX rather than comply. I don't really see that as a free speech violation as it is a massive privacy violation. I also see it as being a largely meaningless law for all the other reasons stated in this thread.

It's not strictly an infringement of free speech, but enough other states have tried similar things and yielded the same result that I don't think there's any chance that those proposing the law didn't expect this outcome. They're in a position where they can claim they didn't censor it, but there's functionally very little difference between censorship and what they did do.

adjl posted...

Probably, but I wouldn't really consider either to be harbingers of society's collapse. They're problems, certainly, but in the grand scheme of climate change, an explosive cost of living crisis, and the imminent collapse of the labour market due to runaway automation, they don't really amount to much.

The Roman Empire would like a word with you.